{"id":137516,"date":"2021-09-27T18:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T12:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=137516"},"modified":"2021-09-29T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:04:13","slug":"update-upsc-civil-services-2020-official-cut-off-marks-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/update-upsc-civil-services-2020-official-cut-off-marks-released\/","title":{"rendered":"[Update] UPSC Civil Services 2020 Official Cut-Off Marks Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p>UPSC has released UPSC Civil Services 2020 official Cut-off marks. Cut-off marks are minimum qualifying standards\/marks secured by the last recommended candidate in various categories. Cut-off marks of Prelims are provided on the basis of GS Paper-I only. GS Paper-II was of qualifying nature with 33% marks as per Rule-15 of Civil Services Examination, 2020. You can also download the official UPSC documents from the link.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>UPSC Civil Services 2020 Cut off<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 91.4783%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 11.1111%;\"><strong>Exam<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.1111%;\"><strong>General<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.1111%;\"><strong>EWS<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.36269%;\"><strong>OBC<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.15125%;\"><strong>SC<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.51697%;\"><strong>ST<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.4282%;\"><strong>PwBD-1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.4106%;\"><strong>PwBD-2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.108%;\"><strong>PwBD-3<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 11.1111%;\">CS (Prelims)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.1111%;\">92.51<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.1111%;\">77.55<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.36269%;\">89.12<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.15125%;\">74.84<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.51697%;\">68.71<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.4282%;\">70.06<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.4106%;\">63.94<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.108%;\">40.82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 11.1111%;\">CS (Mains)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.1111%;\">736<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.1111%;\">687<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.36269%;\">698<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.15125%;\">680<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.51697%;\">682<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.4282%;\">648<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.4106%;\">699<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.108%;\">425<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 11.1111%;\">CS (Final)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.1111%;\">944<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.1111%;\">894<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.36269%;\">907<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.15125%;\">875<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.51697%;\">876<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.4282%;\">867<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.4106%;\">910<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.108%;\">675<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h6 class=\"text-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/UPSC-Civil-services-2020-cut-off.pdf\">Download &#8211; UPSC Civil services 2020 cut off<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h4><strong>Analysis of UPSC Civil Services Cut-off since 2016<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 99.282%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5.45255%;\"><strong>Exam<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.8866%;\"><strong>2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Gen. | OBC | SC | ST | EWS)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 15.548%;\"><strong>2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Gen. | OBC | SC | ST | EWS)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.766%;\"><strong>2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Gen. | OBC | SC | ST)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.4747%;\"><strong>2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Gen. | OBC | SC | ST)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.2977%;\"><strong>2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Gen. | OBC | SC | ST)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5.45255%;\">CS(Prel.)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.8866%;\">92 | 89 | 74 | 68 | 77<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 15.548%;\">98 | 95 | 82 | 77 | 90<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.766%;\">98 | 96 | 84 | 83<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.4747%;\">105 | 102 | 88 | 88<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.2977%;\">116 | 110 | 99 | 96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5.45255%;\">CS(Main)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.8866%;\">736 | 698 | 680 | 682 | 687<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 15.548%;\">751 | 718 | 706 | 699 | 696<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.766%;\">774 | 732 | 719 719<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.4747%;\">809 | 770 | 756 | 749<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.2977%;\">787 | 745 | 739 | 730<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5.45255%;\">CS(Final)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.8866%;\">944 | 907 | 875 | 876 | 894<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 15.548%;\">961 | 925 | 898 | 893 | 909<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.766%;\">982 | 938 | 912 | 912<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.4747%;\">1006 | 968 | 944 | 939<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.2977%;\">988 | 951 | 937 | 920<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>*<strong>Note<\/strong>: We have round off some figures due to space crunch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cut-off for Civil Services Prelims is consistently reducing since 2016. It signifies the increasing difficulty level of the UPSC Prelims Questions.<\/li>\n<li>For Civil Services mains the cut-off jumped once in 2017, however, it is also decreasing after that.<\/li>\n<li>Further, with the increasing availability of study material, and the number of candidates, the cut-off is not increasing. It means that the majority of the candidates are not able to solve the UPSC question papers from the available material, otherwise, the cut-off would have been much higher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, UPSC has released UPSC Civil Services 2020 official Cut-off marks. Cut-off marks are minimum qualifying standards\/marks secured by the last recommended candidate in various categories. Cut-off marks of Prelims are provided on the basis of GS Paper-I only. GS Paper-II was of qualifying nature with 33% marks as per Rule-15 of Civil Services&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/update-upsc-civil-services-2020-official-cut-off-marks-released\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Update] UPSC Civil Services 2020 Official Cut-Off Marks Released<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-upsc-exam-alert","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700804575,"cached_date":1704903282},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}